Just like during all the recent Iran protests, the language used by Western politicians and media follows a familiar script: “freedom,” “democracy,” and “support for the protesters” is what Europe and the US present as their priorities. Washington and London present themselves as moral actors, standing on the side of the protesters against an oppressive state.
A firm in a “pick and shovel” market produces a good or service that serves as an input to other businesses. A “frontier” pick-and-shovel supplier has made a significant technical breakthrough in applied science or engineering that has enabled capabilities in its product previously considered impractical, uneconomical, or impossible.
According to Cotality, Australia’s dwelling value-to-income ratio was tracking at a record high of 8.2 in the September quarter of 2025. Despite three 25-bp interest rate decreases from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), the percentage of median family income required to service a new mortgage on a median-priced home was still historically high, at
Ireland's oldest wind farm decommissioned to make way for expansion of adjoining project that will feature 18 turbines - each bigger than the entire project they replace.
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CEFC commits $70 million to energy and transport projects backed by state owned fund investment fund
CEFC provides another $70 million to help $100 billion state-run investment fund drive more emission cuts in portfolio companies.
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CS Energy has blamed human error on an internal IT network for the sudden outage that caused the trip of the two units at the Callide C coal generator last Thursday.
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Chancellor Friedrich Merz has launched a fresh critique of German work ethic, questioning why employees take an average of “almost three weeks” of sick leave annually instead of working harder to boost the country’s dwindling economy.
Wall Street futures fell sharply alongside the USD (and Bitcoin) while gold and undollars rose on the weekend tariff orders from the Trump regime, with the Europeans playing hardball. Asian share markets are all in the red given the risk off mood with the latest Chinese economic figures (and more importantly – population figures –
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The world's first giga-scale battery project was installed in 2021. This year, there will be 120 of them.
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Queensland's troubled coal plant suffers new outages, just two months after huge maintenance spend, leading to evacuation and new questions about LNG energy plan.
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A turbine fire at ageing wind farm causes five-hour shutdown as owner mulls options for repowering the facility.
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Firefighters investigate cause of blaze in Adelaide, which has caused major damage to energy company 1Komma5º's solar panel and battery warehouse.
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Although batteries still account for a modest share of total capacity, they are exerting a disproportionate influence in Australia's main grids.
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TME with the details. That was the soft launch They told us AI was a chatbot. A productivity toy. A nicer autocomplete. That was the soft launch. In its latest Tech Predictions, CB Insights argues that AI’s next phase is no longer digital, but physical. Models are moving into machines, vehicles, warehouses, and defense systems,
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